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Blockade
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / [?] 6336 or 6409? feet / 70 minutes
Directed by George B. Seitz

Cast: Anna Q. Nilsson [Bess], Wallace MacDonald [Vincent], James Bradbury Sr. [Gwynn], Walter McGrail [Hayden]

FBO Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by [?] FBO Productions, Incorporated? / Continuity (screenplay) by Harvey Thew, with dialogue by George Le Maire, from an adaptaion by John Stuart Twist of a screen story by John Stuart Twist and Louis Sarecky. Assistant director, Thomas Atkins. Cinematography by Robert Martin. Film editor, Archie Marshek. Intertitles written by Randolph Bartlett. / © 16 December 1929 by FBO Productions, Incorporated [LP24]. Released 16 December 1928. / Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound version) and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version). RCA Photophone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was released in the USA in a silent version by [?] FBO Productions, Incorporated? / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Reviews: [Photoplay, April 1929, page 8] Bootlegging made attractive by Anna Q. Nilsson. A good melodrama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Crime: Bootlegging - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 13 September 2023.

References: Geduld-Birth p. 238 : Photoplay-192904 p. 8 : Website-IMDb.

 
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